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Casanova, Vol. 3: Avaritia (2012)

by Matt Fraction(Favorite Author)

4.13 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

0785148647 (ISBN13: 9780785148647)

languge

English

genre

Science Fiction

publisher

Marvel

series

Casanova

review 1: A writer like Matt Fraction deserves to be let loose every once in a while. His work on such series as Iron Fist, Iron Man, and Thor plays with big, weird ideas in a fairly simple, accessible ways, and comes across as engaging popcorn storytelling. Casanova is a different beast altogether. I don't recommend reading Avaritia unless you have read the previous two volumes of Casanova, and I really don't even recommend reading it unless you've RECENTLY read the other two volumes. Take a refresher course on them before you delve into Avaritia, because it is somehow even denser and more insane than the previous volumes.After the events of Gula (Casanova vol. 2), we find Casanova trapped in an infinite cycle, carrying out the same exact hit on the same exact person across an infi... morenite number of universes. This is simple enough to understand, but it quickly goes completely crazy. However, you get the feeling Fraction knows that this stuff is impossible to understand. We're dealing with a story set in a multiverse where superspies sometimes go so far as to kill alternate versions of themselves. The reasons are not always clear, the plot becomes increasingly difficult to follow, and somehow it doesn't seem to matter. Fraction has such a great sense of humor (brilliantly coupled by the amazing art of Gabriel Ba) that even when Casanova spins completely off the rails, you trust it. You keep reading, and you enjoy the way it makes you feel as your brain slowly melts and pours out of your ears. It's the kind of stuff Phillip K. Dick would read if he was feeling adventurous.Casanova is definitely not for everybody. By the end I felt as lost as if someone had made me close my eyes and spin around for 5 minutes and set me loose in a town in the middle of nowhere. But I enjoyed the ride a whole hell of a lot, and I think that's the most important part.
review 2: I love the Quinn multiverse, but found this the patchiest volume of the three. I love that the scabby guy on the boat in the previous volume turns out to be Xeno, but the wacky fact that he's only sentient bandages didn't resonate with anything. And do we need to see dozens of different cauterized realities, pages and pages, when we got the point after the first couple? Does the final button push need to take five pages? Mostly I'm just sad Zephyr never came back, unless she happened to be inhabiting some unnamed lab tech off in a corner. less

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